Robert brown



(No Model.)

B. BROWN. SHEA]? CARRIER.

No. 432,931. Patented July 22, 1890.

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U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT BROWN, OF MIAMISBURG, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO HOOVER & GAMBLE, OF SAME PLACE.

SHEAF-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 432,931, dated July 22, 1890.

Application filed March 10, 1890- fierial No. 343,320. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT BROWN, a cit-izen of the United States, and a resident of Miamisburg, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in sheaf-Carriers for Harvesting-lVIachines, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide to a sheaf-carrier by which the sheaf can be readily dumped therefrom by the lateral moving of the sheaf-support.

Another object of my invention is to provide means for folding the entire sheaf-carrier for transportation and movement from one place to another.

Another object of my invention is to simplify and cheapen the construction of these devices, all of which will be fully set forth in the description of the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which-= Figure 1 is a top plan view of myimprovement. Fig. 2 is a section of the same, showing the position of the fingers when folded. Fig. 3 is a section on line 00 m, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the fingerbrackets.

1 represents the head of the sheaf-carrier, which is attached to the binder-frame in any suitable manner. 2 3 represent brackets attached to the outside of said frame-piece, each provided with a lateral lug 4:, having an orifice 5. A bracket 6, cast in the form shown by Fig. 4, is provided with two journals to b,

I mounted in the orifices 5 of the lugs 4, and

each bracket 6 has an outer eye or slot 0,

through which passes the tail end of a finger 7, Fig. 4, the extremity of such tail end being rigidly engaged with the bracket at d in any suitable manner, whereby it is firmly secured in place. The brackets 6 are adapted to freely swing by their journals a. b, and to one series of the brackets is pivotally attached by pivot-pins 9 a connecting-rod 8 for the series B of the fingers. The fingers are divided into two gangs or series. The fingers A A are stationary. The fingers B B are moved by moving the connecting-rod 8.

5o 10 represents aconnecting-rod to the series of fingers A A, and these are normally held in position by means of the spring-catch 12.

11 represents the spring, which is coiled around the spool 13. The spool is provided with a series of notches 14, with which the arm and spring engage.

Mode of operation: The sheafs or bundles are deposited upon the fingers, chiefly resting upon the fingers B, but some overlap on the fingers A, to accomplish which the gang of fingers A is located in the same horizontal plane as the gang of fingers B. When it is desired to dump the sheaf, the fingers B are folded back by any well-known connecting mechanism. They move away from the fingers A, and the bundles are dropped between the two sets of fingers. Now if all the fingers were to move the tendency would be for the front finger or fingers to catch and entangle the butts' of the sheafs and prevent part of them dropping off, or require an extra power to move them; but by having only a part of the series of fingers to move this difficulty is avoided. I have not shown any means of operating the connecting-rod 8 tohold the rear fingers back, as this may be done by any well-known attachment under the control of the operator. By means of the adj ustingspring 12 fingers A will yield to undue strain and allow the fingers A A to pass obstructions and prevent their breakage or being accidentally caught against obstructions. The spring 12 may be disengaged and the entire machinery folded back for transportation. i 85 I have shown the two series of fingers A and B B, both sets journaled to move. It is not necessary to move the fingers A A except for transportation. Being usually made of wire, they would yield to an obstruction to 0 some extent, but it is better to provide them with journal-supports and a spring for holding them normally in position, so that the more flexibility may be obtained without injuring the fingers when heavy strains are im- 5 parted to them.

invention, what I Having described my claim is- 1. The combination, in a sheaficarrier, of the frame head and the two gangs of pivoted roe sheaf-supporting fingers arranged in the same horizontal plane and one gang remaining stationary and temporarily sustaining the buttends of the sheaves, while the other gang swings rearward to release the sheaves and permit the latter to drop between the two gangs of fingers, substantially as described.

2. The combination, in a sheaf-carrier, of the frame-head 1, having the brackets 2, the two sets of brackets 6, journaled to the latter, the two gangs of sheaf-supporting fingers arranged in the same plane and one gang remaining stationary and temporarily sustaining the butt-ends of the sheaves, while the other gang swings rearward to release the sheaves and permit the latter to drop between the two gangs, and two independent connecting-rods 8 and 10, respectively pivoted to the fingers of the two gangs, substantially as de- 20 scribed.

,of the sheaves,.wh ile the other gang swings rearward to release the sheaves and permit the latter to drop between the two gangs, the two independent connecting-rods respectively pivoted to the fingers of the two gangs, and

the coiled spring carried and supported by the frame-head and connected with the for- I ward gang of fingers, substantially as described.

D. BOOKWALTER, LEWIS II. ZEHRING. 

